Category: Gear & equipment / Gear tests / Product tests / Seamanship & safetyAuthor: Toby HodgesDescription: Oo Test: 21st Century boathooks: Swiftie-Matic, Bosco, Moor Fast, Plastimo Aluminium Hook, Handy Duck, Loopee
The simple boathook is being rivalled by ever more sophisticated gadgets to help you get a line or a cleat around a buoy. Some look like tuning forks, others like robotic arms, but which are the easiest to use?

Category: Boat handlingAuthor: Michael Collings Description: Mooring techniques. By following a few simple guidelines you can avoid the pitfalls and make mooring easier and more effective.
Picking up a buoy. Preventing chafe. Other pitfalls to avoid. Cleating technique.

Category: Seamanship & safety / Practical, maintenance & repairDescription: Hands On - How to moor into a box
Boxes, where one end of the mooring is secured to a jetty and the other to a pair of wooden piles, are the most popular type of mooring in the Netherlands, and you will occasionally find them elsewhere. When you do, the following tips will prove useful.

Category: Seamanship & safetyAuthor: John ToddsDescription: Ropes and ropework
Mooring warps, nylon by choice. When it comes to choosing mooring warps, it has to be nylon. It's a personal opinion, of course, but it's on based on a lifetimes experience... Mooring to a buoy in heavy weather.

Category: Boat handlingAuthor: Ben Meakins, David Pugh, Description: Seamanship
Making fast to a trot mooring should be on every practical yacht skipper's list of abilities: Picking up a trop mooring in ahead, Picking up a trot mooring in stern, Picking up a visitors' trot mooring.

Category: ColumnistAuthor: Libby PurvesDescription: Cruising Life
This month's test of mooring aids reminds me of a story from the late JD Sleightholme - buoys are a serious matter, whether of the navigational or mooring sort..

Category: Practical, maintenance & repairAuthor: Wil BaileyDescription: Mooring advice
When your boat is swinging on her mooring, everything hangs on the integrity of some chain, rope and fixings - and they can take a battering. Wil Bailey explores the best practices and methods of staying put.

Category: Boat handlingDescription: Expert on board
Two effective methods for picking up a mooring buoy singlehanded. Anchoring singlehanded - is easily handled on your own. Weighing anchor and what if the boat doesn't have an electric windlass?